I have a somewhat unusual environment that I'm building with 50 UCS C240 rack servers being used as high-end edit workstations. These are dual CPU/64 GB/Tesla + Quadro equipped rack servers in a broadcast HD video editing facility. Windows Server 2012 was selected due to a need for MPIO support (which MS disables in its client OSes). These are end user workstations that will be running Desktop Experience, etc. to make them functionally as close to Windows 8 as possible.
The problem I'm running into is that Windows Server appears to completely ignore ACPI power-off requests. Ideally I'd like to issue mass shutdown requests to all 50 servers via the UCS UI, have each machine wait an appropriate amount of time for apps to close and then kill the tasks and continue shutdown if necessary.
Power Options/System Settings - Power button is set to shut down
Shutdown: Allow system to be shut down without having to log on - Set to enabled
What else am I missing?
Viper GTS
The problem I'm running into is that Windows Server appears to completely ignore ACPI power-off requests. Ideally I'd like to issue mass shutdown requests to all 50 servers via the UCS UI, have each machine wait an appropriate amount of time for apps to close and then kill the tasks and continue shutdown if necessary.
Power Options/System Settings - Power button is set to shut down
Shutdown: Allow system to be shut down without having to log on - Set to enabled
What else am I missing?
Viper GTS
